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It's been known locally as "Nun's Delight" for many, many years.
BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
One didn't drink Kaliber, one suffered it, like taking a particularly rank medicine. Clausthaler, that was actually bearable for an alcohol-free lager, but Kaliber? Kaliber was more rank than a leper's unwashed feet!
Tom A
Goat among sheep
Hear, hear, and if I want to drink reasonably priced beer I shall head to the many other great pubs in Manchester.the brewdog bar in manchester is embarrassing tbh - all the atmosphere of a suburban wetherspoons, but booze at £6 a pint. fuck that. if i want to drink outrageously overpriced beer in manchester i'll go the port street beer house.
xslavearcx
time for a nu-metal revival?
Funny thing was when i drank it at the time i had managed to convince myself that it tasted just like beer. But i tried it again about a year ago and it was disgusting!!!
Superdupastupor
fun to funky
exactly that. Complete bullshit company. same with the Glasgow branch. should have learnt my lesson really.
Those Bars are fucking horrible mix of weatherspoons/overpirced wanky clinetelle/ faux-dive schtick
Williams Bros of Alloa do it better
badseed
Mighty but thin.
America produce some fantastic brews, their craft beer industry is huge and they have some great styles.
Check out Sierra Nevada pale and IPA they both go down well.
As for the mega-swill, I was drinking Blue Moon a lot while I was in the states without realising it was made by Coors.
Williams' beers are excellent! 
Not just because of the name either ...
Not just because of the name either ...
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
How about Rude Boy Black IPA?
An Italian microbrew that set me back €12 a bottle in Milan.
The pub over the road from me has Kissingate Buffalo Black IPA at 2.99 a pint and very nice it is too.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
Lemon Eddy
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"yet another hip company"? You're joking, they started off in Fraserburgh! This is without doubt the first time anything from the broch has ever been accused of being hip.
The shareholder's meetings are a good laugh. I went to one about five years back. It had 1 item on the agenda, to confirm the business plan. If memory serves, the business plan in it's entirety was "This year we intend to sell beer. All in favour?", and then went straight to a product tasting session, of which I remember fuck all after the first 4 hours.
The two boys seemed sound enough when they were starting up. They managed raise the dosh to launch their own brewery, and then expand it into a pretty sizeable outfit. Maybe the success has got to them or something.
The shareholder's meetings are a good laugh. I went to one about five years back. It had 1 item on the agenda, to confirm the business plan. If memory serves, the business plan in it's entirety was "This year we intend to sell beer. All in favour?", and then went straight to a product tasting session, of which I remember fuck all after the first 4 hours.
The two boys seemed sound enough when they were starting up. They managed raise the dosh to launch their own brewery, and then expand it into a pretty sizeable outfit. Maybe the success has got to them or something.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
The ex head brewer at Theakstons brewery, Hugh Curley, told a great tale on the guided tour along similar lines. An American tourist had been on the tour, then proceded to drink 5 pints of Peculier in the Black Bull pub next door, all the while bemoaning the "so called" strong beer. As he started his 6th he fell off his stool and passed out on the floorI once watched a nice young Canadian chap down 8 of the little dumpy bottles of Old Peculier in about an hour, then crash to the ground like a felled tree, totally cunted.
ah, that's it - they bought sharps a couple of years ago. there was a complimentary article about their hands-off approach and support for the head brewer in whats brewing a couple of months ago.
Tom A
Goat among sheep
Not to dissimilar to how some indie music labels rely on one of the majors for distribution, in my opinion.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Yup - They have worked hard for their firm, built good relationships with the relatively small number of independent licencees here which they still maintain despite larger commercial success and a lot of their funding came from local folk investing directly.
Indeed, one of my colleagues is a pretty ordinary shareholder and spent last weekend at their new brewery in Ellon, learning to make his own beer!
I went into the one in Camden with a mate in the middle of Christmas Eve shopping madness. Paid £8 and it was only on leaving that it clicked we'd got halfs for the price. I didn't clock it at the time as it was nice to sit down and relax and £8 for two beers isn't that odd.
For a while I wondered if the bloke had put them through as pints or something.
Was a massively average pub and I didn't rate the beer either.
not really - they own sharps outright, and have recently also bought an irish craft brewery too, apparently.
i think they've just seen that there's money to be made in the craft brew market, but are (shockingly) actually doing it properly rather than just taking over a brand and ruining it, like how they used to...
8ball
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fractionMan
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They're not bad, but they're certainly not the best, at least for me.
It's a style preference thing, most american microbrews are far too heavy/thick tasting for me.
not saying it was a bargain at a fiver, mind...Never a form of words I expected to see in mitigation of beer prices.
Fiver a pint is still fucking expensive*. Especially when you can buy it on tap for less than that in pubs that aren't owned by the brewery.
*And I come from Edinburgh, which is like a shit, provincial version of London.
fractionMan
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Who goes to the pub and pays £8 a pint ffs?
I paid 4.50 for a posh beer as a treat last night, but 8 quid? fuck off.
I paid 4.50 for a posh beer as a treat last night, but 8 quid? fuck off.
Oh aye. But if it is something that only comes into the country in very small quantities I can see a specialist pub charging a premium for that (not to the tune of 8 quid/pint). It was more that your post reminded me of the fact that they seem to charge more for their own beer than pubs that aren't owned by the brewery.
And it's not like their bars offer some other service that would justify the premium, beyond getting to drink in a Brewdog bar and loudly telling everyone around you that you're a shareholder in the company or whatever.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
One of Roger Protz's perennial complaints, that.
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